Economic laws no mere ‘guidelines’ ///

In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Captain Barbossa appears to violate the “Pirate’s Code” when he doesn’t release Elizabeth Swann, but he defends his action by saying, “The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.” Shocking everyone, the laws of supply and demand continue to prove that they are not merely “guidelines” but are, in fact, hard rules.